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European Jewish life could only resume in the aftermath of the Holocaust on the predicate that the state would ensure the safety of the decimated communities. The first two decades…

K. is fortunate to have an editor like Julia Christ in its ranks; she gives no quarter to platitudes. Christ, born in Germany and now a researcher at the École…

  There is nothing like an inferno to rouse men from a summertime torpor. France has been treated to a series of forest fires in the past month, sometimes touching…

  This week, we are rerunning Balázs Berkovits’ two-part series on the Jews and whiteness, titled “What Color Are the Jews?” A detailed analysis of the “theory” that intends to…

  We conclude this week our long interview with Daniel Mendelsohn. In this last part, he surveys the politics of our period: the rise of populism in the United States…

  « The lost identity of the immigrant family can only be recreated through a narrative. That’s why my grandfather was always telling stories about the ‘old country’, because in the…

  Daniel Mendelsohn’s The Lost was a worldwide bestseller, an immediate Classic. This book – the story, told by a child of survivors, of some members of his family who…

  This week, before our summer programming and the first part of our interview with Daniel Mendelssohn, we turn to Germany. K. puts the spotlight on an inflammatory controversy that…

  This issue is the last of the year before the summer. But K. won’t really be on vacation and will offer a series in July and another in August….